The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-31

your children into the ark You can draw
your children 20 Christ, but you cannot CO.
cree them. The cross was lifted, not to drive,
but to draw ''If be lifted up, l will draw
all men unto me.n As the sun draws up the
drops of morning dew, SO the sun of righteous
ness exhales the tears of repentance.
Come thou and all thy house into the
ark" Ec sure that you bring your husband
and wife with you How would Noah have
felt if, when be heard the rain pattering on
the roof of the ark, he knew that his wife
was outside in the storm? No; she went with
him. And yet some of you are on the ship
"outward bound" for heaven, but your COM
panion is unsheltered. You remember the
day when the marriage ring was set. Moth
ing has yet been able to break it. Sickness
came, and the finger shrank, but the ring
-staid on. The twain stood alone above
child's grave, and the dark mouth of the
tomb swallowed up q thousand hopes; but the
ring dropped not into the open grave. Days
OF poverty came, and the hand did many
hard days work; but the rubbing of the work
against tho ring only made ii shine brighter.
| Shall that ring ever he losts VIII the iron
clang Of the sePulchre gate crush it forever?
| pray God that you who have been married
on earth may be together in heaven. Oh! by
the quiet bliss of your earthly home; by the
| babes cradle; by all the vows of that day
when you started life together, beg you to
see to it that You both get into the ark.
Come in and bring your wife or your hus-
band with you-not by fretting about re-
ligion Or dingdonging them about religion,
| bat by consistent life, and by a compelling
prayer that shall bring the throne of God
! down into your bedroom. Better live in the
| sD1a Host bouCa in RroOIy1yyu and into
heaven than live fifty years in the finest
| house on Madison square and wake up at
last and lind that one of you, for all eternity.
is outside the ark. Go home tonight, lock
| the door of your room, take up the Bible and
read it together, and then kneel down and
commend your souls to him who hiss watched
| you all these years; and, before you rise,
there will be u fluttering of wings over your
head, angel crying to angel: 'BehOld, they
pray"
But this does not include all your family.
Bring the children too. God bless the dear
children What would our homes be without
them! We may have done much for them.
They have done more for us. What salve
for wounded heart there is in the soft palm
of a child's hand! Did harp or flute ever
have such music as there is in a child's 'good
| night" From our coarse, rough life the
angels of God are often driven back; but who
comes into the nursery without feeling that
angels are lowering around? They who die
in infancy go into glory, but you are expect
ing your children to grow up in this world.
Is it not question then that rings through
all the corridors, and windings, and heights
and depths of your soul, what is to become of
your sons and daughters for time and for
eternity. "Oh!' you say, Il mean to see that
bov tT
mean to dress them well, if | have myself to
go shabby" Very good. II shall give them
an education and shall leave them for
tune" Very well. But is that all? Don't
you mean to take them into the ark? DON'T
you know that the storm is coming, and that
out of Christ there is no safety, no pardon,
no hope no heaven?
How to get them in? Go in yourself Ii
Noah had stAid out, do you not suppose that
his sons Shem, Ham and Japhet, would
have staid out? Your sons and daughters
viii be apt to do just as you do. Reject
Christ yourself, and the probability is that
your children viii reject him.
An account was taken OF the religious con
dition of families in a certain district In tbs
. families of pious parents two-thrds of tbs
children were Christians. In the families
where the parents were ungodly, only one
twelfth of the children were Christians Re
! sponsible as you are for their temporal exis
t tence, you are also responsible for their eter
nifty. Which way will YOU take thems Ou
I into the dcluge, Or into the ark? Have yor
: ever mado one earnest prayer for their i'm
mortal souls? What will you say in til,
Judgment, when God asks. "Where is George
or Henry, or Frank, or Mary, or Anna
r Where are those precious souls whose inter
tod i,,t.o
a A dying son said to his father: "Father
0 you gave me an education, and good man
e ners and everything that the world could d,
| for me; but, father, you never told me how
I to die, and now my soul is going out in th
y darkness"
f Go home and erect family altar Yo,
/ may break down in your prayer. But neve
a mind, God will take what you mean, whethe
S you express it inteligibiy Or not Bring al
=: your house into the ark Is there one Sol
n whom you have given up? Is he SO dissipate,
: Nat you have stopped counseling and pray
IS ing? Give him up? How dare you give hir
e up? Did God ever give thee up? AVhils
e thou hast q single articulation OF speech lei
is cease not to pray for the return of that prod
+ igGl. He may even now be standing on th
: beach at Hong Kong or Madras, meditatin
D a return to his fathers house. Give him ur
}, Never give him up. Has God promised t
5 hear thy prayer only to mock thee? It is nc
It too late
5, In st. Paurs London, there is 4 whisperin
e gallery. A voice uttered most feeGly at on
It side of the gallery is heard distinctly at til
is opposite side, g great distance off. So ever
e word of earnest prayer goes all around til
5; earth and makes heaven a whispering gallery
lie Go into the arll-not to sit down, but to stan
in the door and call until all the family com
V il. Aged Noah, where is Japhet? Davit
% where is Absaloml Hannah, where is Samue
II Bring them in through Christ, the dool
10 Would it not be pleasant to spend oternit
il with our families! Gladder than Christine
le or Thanksgiving festival will be the reunio
G. if we get all our family into the ark Whic
N of them can we spare out Of heaven.
Y On one of the late steamers there were
L. father and two daughters journeying. The
,a seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gel
y, tleman stepped up to the poor man to profft
o. some form of relief, and said: you seem
s be very poor, sir" poor, sir" replied IL
" man, "if there's poorer man than II
n atroubling the world, God pity both of us
10 u will take one of your children and adoy
\. it if you say so. I think it would be a gre;
", relief to You" ga what?" said the poor MAJ
IN "a reliefn 'Would it be relief to have Il
Is hands chopped off from the body or the hea
nc torn from the breast? A relief, indeed &C
nf be good to us What do you mean, sir!n
nn However many children we may have, "
M have none to give up. Which, of our fam
i'll lies, can we afford to spare out of beaver
Come, father! Come, mother! Come, Sol
Inf Come, daughter Come, brotherl Com
de sister Only one step, and we are in. Chris
NJ the door, swings out to admit US; and it is n
" the hoarseness of stormy blast that you hea
mn but the voice of loving and patient &c
that addresses you, saying: "Cone thou al
-es all thy house into the ark"
nd And there may the Lord shut us in.
nd
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nd The electric light, which was introduc,
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